Disabled Spotmatic and Mystery Film
A few years ago I was given a black Pentax Spotmatic. I have three or four other Spotmatics – for years that was all I shot in the field and always had one for colour, one black and white and one spare. The first cameras I ever bought were Spotmatics. But all were silver and I had never even seen a black one so was glad to have it.
A recent post by Jim Grey about a Spotmatic F inspired me to get the black Spotmatic going. I had noticed that the battery cover was green around the edges from a leaking battery and the cover would not come off. There was a roll of film in the camera, with 10 frames already shot, which I wanted to finish. I was not sure if the bottom plate of the camera was essential to light tightness and could not try to repair the camera and make the light meter operational with film in it. Thus I had set the camera aside to work on some time. (more…)
Stand Up
Now, you may think this is a storm drain photo.
And if you want to, that is fine.
But I think of it as a photo of two stand-up boarders, even if you can hardly see them.
Foul Barrier
This barrier is at the end of Foul Bay Road, which overlooks what was once called Foul Bay.
A few decades ago, property owners on the bay, not appreciating that Foul referred to the bay being full of, or foul with, rocks campaigned for a name change.
Which eventually happened, and now it is called Gonzales Bay for a Spanish explorer who would have understood the meaning of foul.
Drain by Trial
If you have been having storm drain withdrawal, then quake no more.
Though really this is a photo of Trial Island lit in the low evening sun, on an otherwise dark and gloom sun
Colours of Heater Harbour II
This is Heater Harbour at sunset taken from the Passing Cloud.
Heater Harbour is here on Kunghit Island just east and south of Rose Harbour in Gwaii Haanas.
De la Beche Mists
While on the Passing Cloud we anchored in De la Beche Inlet (map link) a few times.
There are a lot of shore pine in the forests at the edge of the inlet.
Indeed, there are large areas without forest, but low shrubs on bedrock.
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